MELANCHOLY ACCIDENT AT A REGATTA.
The annual regatta in connection with the Carrickfergno Amateur Rowing and Swimming Club took place in Peltast Lough. The weather was most unfavorable, being inclement and squally. A sailing race, for open boats of 201:t. keel was being run, when one of the crafts, in which were five men, was caught in a squall and thrown on her beam ends. The boat filled with water and sank almost instantly. Another of the competing crafts in the race was coming closely behind, and as she sailed rapidly past, those in her managed to pick up two of the live men of the sunken boat. They also endeavored to beat back and save the others, but in force of the wind they could not do so. The coastguards of the "White house Station having heard of the ocurrence rowed out to the place and rescued another-of the live men, who was clinging to the mast- He was in a very exhausted condition, and could give no particulars regarding the other two, who where nowhere to be seen. The men drowned were John Niblock, compositor, and Mathew Shanks, joiner They both leave wives and families,
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South Canterbury Times, Volume XV, Issue 2068, 8 November 1879, Page 3
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197MELANCHOLY ACCIDENT AT A REGATTA. South Canterbury Times, Volume XV, Issue 2068, 8 November 1879, Page 3
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